Geffen didn’t want to show Elden’s penis on the cover and tried their hardest to get Nirvana to agree on an alternative cover but getting the band to budge would be easier said than done. Photographer Kirk Weddle was sent out by Fisher to a local pool to shoot the cover art after recruiting his friends baby to take part, for a fee of just $200.
They then came to a compromise and went for the swimming baby option but the label was unwilling to shell out $7,500 on a stock image of a swimming baby so, instead, they created their own. The singer then brought this up next time he saw Geffen’s art director Robert Fisher who discovered some stock footage of underwater births which was immediately ruled out by the label bosses. Nirvana’s lawyers have called for a hearing for their dismissal motion in January.Cobain was the mastermind behind the operation and the initial idea came to the late frontman when he was watching a programme about water births. I feel the same way most people do in that I have to disagree ”. They make reference to the fact Elden has a tattoo of the word Nevermind on his chest, which Grohl also addressed when asked about the lawsuit in October: “He’s got a Nevermind tattoo. Lawyers for Nirvana have countered that Elden “has spent three decades profiting from his celebrity as the self-anointed ‘Nirvana Baby’”, including recreating the image for the album’s 15th and 25th anniversaries. In his lawsuit, Elden said that appearing on the cover of Nevermind caused him “extreme and permanent emotional distress with physical manifestations”, plus loss of education, wages, and “enjoyment of life”. The motion claims the image instead “evokes themes of greed, innocence, and the motif of the cherub in western art”. A brief examination of the photograph, or Elden’s own conduct (not to mention the photograph’s presence in the homes of millions of Americans who, on Elden’s theory, are guilty of felony possession of child pornography) makes that clear.” Elden’s claim that the image is of child sexual abuse is described by the lawyers as “not serious.
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